Dictionary as Lines Problem
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Hi everybody,
I'm a newbie of Backtrader and I'm still trying to learn on my own as much as I can of how it works, but I think that asking directly to experts, could be a much faster way to learn.So the problem is that I'm trying to develop a new indicator that will produce a lines but to calculate this it needs to employ a much complicated data structure as a dictionary.
In particular, it needs to store for each touched level of price how many times this price has been touched from a certain point in time to another. But as I've seen (and probably I'm wrong), there's no direct way to store something like this in an indicator:{price1: value1, price2: value2, price3: value3, ...}
The question is simple, is there a way to store a dictionary over time?
Thank you so much!
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Lines do only store floats. Nothing prevents that you store more complicated structures as member attributes of your indicator.
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Thank you for this reply Boss, I’m honored.
So you are telling me that Indicators can store things that evolve over time different than Lines?Could it be better to create a Strategy attribute wich will be updated each next() call?